Tag: Brewing Up Cocktails

It’s that time of year again: Brewing Up Cocktails returns this Saturday, December 10, for our second annual Holiday Edition. This time we’re serving our biggest menu of beer cocktails ever, including three of them served hot to warm you up on a winter night. We’re bringing back a classic wassail, the ever popular and nearly impossible to find Hot Scotchy, and the brand new Hot Choklat made with rum, Galliano Ristretto, and a heated up glass of the incredibly rich Southern Tier Choklat stout. We’ll also feature a couple favorites from bartenders outside of Portland: the Euclidean 75 from Denver’s Ryan Conklin and the Tradewinds Punch from Washington, DC’s Jon Harris. All that and an ugly holiday sweater contest too.

Put a bird on it? No, put an egg in it! The next edition of Brewing Up Cocktails will take place this Sunday in collaboration with Spints Alehouse and Oakshire Brewing. In honor of Easter (or at least the fun, secular aspects of the holiday), we’ll be serving only flips. That’s right, every drink on the menu will incorporate beer, liquor, and a whole egg, making this one of the most unhealthy cocktail menus ever devised. We promise it will be worth it. Join us 5-8 at Spints to find an egg in your glass.

Brewing Up Cocktails is hitting the road! We’ll be in San Francisco on March 26th doing a beer cocktail event sponsored by Ninkasi Brewing. It’s from 5-9 pm at 111 Minna Gallery, with drinks featuring five different ales from Ninkasi. If you’re in the Bay Area, we hope to see you there.

Jacob Grier is a freelance writer, bartender, cocktail consultant, and magician in Portland, Oregon, and the author of Cocktails on Tap: The Art of Mixing Spirits and Beer. His articles have appeared in the print or online editions of The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, The Los Angeles Times, Reason, The Oregonian, Eater, and other publications. [Photo by Michael Ingram.]